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Britain’s police are only relatively honest, the Prime Minister said yesterday.

David Cameron said that he could not claim to have a perfect system in the wake of the Plebgate scandal and the Leveson inquiry, which exposed inappropriate relationships between the police and journalists.

Mr Cameron stuck by his description when offered the chance to clarify his use of the word “relatively”, which risks increasing tension between the coalition and the police.

The relationship has been damaged by the Government’s police service reforms, as well as the “Plebgate” altercation between the former Cabinet Minister Andrew Mitchell and officers at Downing